When Fernando Dávila was 8 years old in Colombia, he failed a drawing class because he painted donkeys red. There was a ...

Color compositions that artists find beautiful are also beautiful to the viewer Professor Shigeki Nakauchi's research team at Toyohashi University of Technology worked with researchers from the ...

“Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas” draws on the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s extensive holdings of Alma Thomas’ art to offer an intimate view of her evolving practice during her most ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified the origins of the blue color in one of Jackson Pollock’s paintings with a little help from chemistry, confirming for the first time that the abstract ...

Paintings are versatile near-planar objects with material characteristics that vary widely. The fact that paint has a material presence is often overlooked, mostly due to the fact that we encounter ...

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, “Vigil for a Horseman” (title of both paintings) (2017), oil on linen (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Under-Song For A Cipher at the New Museum, ...

SAN ANTONIO — “Who can resist a painting of a big slab of butter?” Mary Morton asked a group of art patrons and media members as they previewed “Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art ...

A research team led by Professor Shigeki Nakauchi of Toyohashi University of Technology conducted an experimental study of the color composition preferences of 31,353 participants, for a total of ...